In recognition of his instrumental role
in the expansion of the Internet across the Asia-Pacific,
Shigeki Goto.
(applause)
- Thank you for introduction.
We are all aware that the UCLA
is the very birth place of ARPANET.
However, UCLA's activities quite wide.
For my personal memories, UCLA
is a place of artificial intelligence.
Here shows the evidence.
That was the one of the top conference
of artificial intelligence.
IJCAI, or
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence,
held in 1985.
I made --
(applause)
I made a presentation at IJCAI,
which I will not explain because
it needs 15 minutes.
(laughter)
That was my last activity in California for some time.
I was a visiting scholar to Stanford university
under the leadership of professor John McCarthy
who coined the word Artificial Intelligence.
And then I realize the real power of the ARPANET
during my stay at Stanford University,
and I returned from Los Angeles to Tokyo,
and back to my home institute, NTT laboratories.
NTT is a Japanese telephone company.
Then I had good news, and bad news.
Good news is my colleagues are eager to deploy
IP network in Japan to facilitate
joint international projects.
So then, I simply follow the Stanford way --
this is part of Cisco product --
as the first Cisco product user in Japan,
and ask SRI NIC to allocate global IP address,
which is not connected in 1985.
However my friend, Kemula Kami, using a modified version
of IOS, with help from Cisco founder Len Bosack,
who was a (inaudible) associate at Stanford at that time.
So then, other friends, quite eager to realize and
multilingual the realization of the Internet,
and they come up with the
modified Mosaic browser with a server,
which is very hard to read,
but it's 1993, just before boom
of the World Wide Web.
And made by my friends Toshihiro and Susumu.
They achieved their goal just before
the boom of the World Wide Web.
That's good. And then my friend Yashki Santo
negotiated with NSF and the DOD
to make the IP network official.
Ken Murakami modified IOS, DNI --
and NTT and BBN,
that's the very first IT packet between Japan and the US
in summer 1988.
So, these are all good news's,
and we have a friend in Korea and China.
We work out together to multilingual browsers and servers
and that comes to the International Domain Names right now.
These are good news.
Bad news was my dream in artificial intelligence,
which I described in my paper
at the IJCAI at UCLA,
was proved to be
infeasible theoretically.
Very sad story for me as a computer scientist.
So, then, there are many supporters for IP network
and I have zero dream in artificial intelligence.
I had to switch my primary research area
from artificial intelligence
to computer network.
That's my personal story.
So I learned a lesson, it's acceptable
to give up one dream.
Still there should be something for us
to contribute to human society.
In my life, that was the Internet.
Thank you very much for inducting me
to the Internet Hall of Fame.
It's the greatest honor to me,
and my friends.
Thank you very much.
(applause)